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…e three reasons. First, the most substantial fallout from the Arab world’s recent upheaval is behind us. Syria’s Bashar al-Assad continues to fight for survival and Yemen continues to flirt with failed-state status, but the Gulf’s major oil-producing states are quite stable. So a...

From: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Sent: 2/11/2013 5:45:09 PM To: Larry Summers_______________________ Subject: prep for dinner, israel pres briefing / The Wall Street Journal The Ayatollah Always Says No Editorial February 8, 2013 --The Farsi word for "no" is na h, wh...

14 divided to form a government, or might fall under the domination of the Muslim Brotherhood. Pro-democracy activists reject those claims. They tell me that they've been trying to establish formal contacts with both the US and EU to help the major democracies "acquire a more b...

Syria. We could halt at that stage, in the unlikely event Hizbollah showed signs of de-escalation. But if it didn’t, the air strikes would intensify. The aim was not target the nearly 250,000 Lebanese civilians who lived in the immediate border area. It was to use our attacks, al...

…ya against the Moammar Gadhafi regime and the growing unrest in the Syrian street against the Baathist regime of Bashar al-Assad, the prime minister correctly said Libya and Syria were two totally different issues for Turkey. Erdogan explained while Turkey was very much concerne...

reasonable and realistic leaders should have nothing to fear from Egypt, with which it has an enduring peace treaty. The situation with Syria may not be exactly the same, however, especially when the two countries are still officially in a state of war. The regime of Bashar Assa...

…usted. They are caught in their own web. They flail; they have gone too far to turn back but cannot go forward. Bashar al-Assad, the embattled Syrian president, was about to say something Sunday, before deciding not to. He was trained in west London as an eye doctor. He’d better...

…ing had happened when I had come tantalizingly close to finalizing a peace deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated men — Gili, who was by training a lawyer; Shlomo, an academic; and Danny, a former Mossad chief — had...

…ere has been a temptation to avoid the hard choices such a process would serve up in the hope that the regime of Basher al-Assad would just go away, thereby making hard choices someone else's problem. The arrival of a new assistant to the president for national security affairs i...

…Venezuela at various times have offered diplomatic support, loans, fuel, or direct military aid to the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Dashed hopes Democracy recorded unprecedented gains during the 20th century's last decades. In 1975, Freedom House found that just 25 percent of the...

 AIPAC SPEECH 2013 – MINISTER OF DEFENSE - EHUD BARAK • Thank you for such a warm welcome. • What an indescribable feeling to be surrounded by so many true friends in the capital of the world's greatest democracy. • Members of the Administra...

…he FSA attacked the headquarters of the Air Force Intelligence Agency at Harasta near the capital Damascus. Since Hafez al-Assad

accusing Assad personally of ""feeding on blood"" after he failed to honour the Arab League peace plan. ""No regime can survive by killing or jailing

the situation on the ground has become increasingly chaotic. It is important to understand that there is no united opposition capable of overthrowing / toppling Assad’s regime. Instead

000 of his people including by using chemical weapons – and that wasn't enough to get the British parliament and Prime Minister Cameron or the American Congress and President Obama to act.